New York State Senator

Robert Jackson 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 23)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00949

Introduced
1/8/25  
Provides for service of notice of violations of any provision of title sixteen of the administrative code of the city of New York by the department of sanitation on a respondent that is a closed commercial establishment.
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New York Senate Bill S00959

Introduced
1/8/25  
Establishes the disability benefits maximization and assistance program to assist eligible state retirees in obtaining certain disability benefits; provides for the investing of any net savings realized by the program back into the New York state health insurance program for the purpose of eliminating or limiting the impact of any premium rate or other cost increases that would be the responsibility of an employee or retiree.
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New York Senate Bill S01017

Introduced
1/8/25  
Provides that each state and city college or university assign a personal identification number to each application for acceptance to be used during the admissions process in place of any other identifying information including names and addresses.
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New York Senate Bill S01018

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to employment contracts between school bus workers and the department of education in a city with at least one million inhabitants.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00953

Introduced
1/8/25  
Raises the tax rate on corporate income; increases the state conformity to federal taxation of corporate profit shifting; imposes an additional tax on individual business income in response to federal tax benefits for pass-through business income.
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New York Senate Bill S00954

Introduced
1/8/25  
Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on an exclusion list of coal producers and oil and gas producers.
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New York Senate Bill S00956

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Establishes an affordable independent senior housing assistance program which shall provide grants within amounts appropriated or otherwise available therefor to affordable independent senior housing properties to establish and operate resident assistance programs.
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New York Senate Bill S00957

Introduced
1/8/25  
Discontinues the real property tax exemption for certain real property that is used for home games for certain professional sports teams in New York city beginning with the 2026 assessment roll.
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New York Senate Bill S00964

Introduced
1/8/25  
Provides that no state or local agency, or any agent thereof, may use any funds, facilities, property, equipment or personnel of such agency to investigate, enforce or provide assistance in the investigation or enforcement of any federal program requiring registration of individuals, or maintaining a database of individuals, on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, religion or national or ethnic origin.
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New York Senate Bill S00965

Introduced
1/8/25  
Requires insurers to provide insurance coverage for treatment of rare diseases, life-threatening conditions or diseases, degenerative and disabling conditions, or diagnoses involving medically fragile children, by a provider of the patient's choice.
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New York Senate Bill S00988

Introduced
1/8/25  
Repeals the requirement that applicants must pass an examination in order to qualify as a licensed master social worker.
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New York Senate Bill S00999

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Requires the department of health to review claims for expenditures for early and periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment and other health services, care and supplies which are furnished to eligible children and pre-school children regardless of whether such children have handicapping conditions, are suspected of having handicapping conditions or have an individualized education plan; requires the department of health to apply for all necessary federal approvals regarding such expenditures.
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New York Senate Bill S01001

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Relates to including outpatient care provided by creative arts therapists in certain insurance policies covering care for other mental health services.
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New York Senate Bill S01013

Introduced
1/8/25  
Prohibits the use of chemical agents by police officers against minors under the age of eighteen.
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New York Senate Bill S01016

Introduced
1/8/25  
Lowers the voting age to 16 years; requires that students receive education in civics and be given the opportunity to register to vote in the classroom.